Screen and storm door combined



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' SOB-BEN AND STORM noon COMBINED. No. 576,634, Patented Feb ,9, 1.897.

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JOHN K. UHR, or EAGLEGROVE, IOWA.

SCREEN AND STORM DOOR COMBINED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,634, dated February 9, 1897.

Application filed June 5, 1896. Serial No. 594,460. (No model.)

.['0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN K. UHR, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Eagle Grove, in the county of WVright and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Transformable Screen and Storm Door, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to facilitate the transformation of a door by interchanging solid panels and screens adapted for summer use.

My invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 shows a perspective of the door with parts broken away; to show details of construction. Fig. 2 shows a transverse section of the door through the lower panel thereof.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the reference-letter A is used to indicate the door-frame, which is of course of common construction.

The door proper is composed of a rectangular frame A and a central horizontal crosspiece A which are of the ordinary kind, except forarabbetB on the inner edge of each of said pieces, as required, to leave a rectangular opening at the top and bottom of the door having a rabbeted edge.

On the inner face of the door a bead or molding G is secured to slightly overlap the edges of the opening.

D is a straight bar fitted into a corresponding recess in-the frame. Its ends are bent at right angles and adapted to slip under metal plates or catches D fixed to the movable panel and over recesses in the panel.

D is a handle extending outward from the center of thebar D through a slot in the doorframe in such a manner that the bar can be readily moved therewith, as required, to release the bent ends thereof from the recesses in the panel and the plates D fixed over the recesses in the panel.

D represents a leaf-spring located behind the bar D in such a manner that it will normally retain the ends of the bar in the recesses of the movable panel, as required, to lock the panel in its place. At the edge of the opening opposite from the sliding bar two or more dowel-pins D are secured.

I have provided two panels for each opening, one of them solid and having its edges rabbeted to mate with the edges of the openings and so that the outer surface of the panel may be approximately flush with surface of the door. At one side of the panel openings F are provided for the reception of the dowelpins, and at the opposite edge slots F are formed to admit the ends of the bar D.

It is obvious that this construction of the parts will provide a door in which either panel may be detached and a new one substituted without disturbing the other. This is of advantage when it is desired to have a glass panel above and a wooden panel below or a solid and a screen panel in the door at the same time, to control drafts through the door or to cut off vision, &c., and by means of the concealed and flush joints of the panels in the door a neat and ornamental appearance is secured.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a transformable door the frame A having a cross-piece A and the inner edges of said parts rabbeted, a molding O fixed on the inside of the door to project inward from the edges of the openings adapted to admit interchangeable panels and screens having recesses in their edges, a spring-actuated bar D having its ends bent at right angles to enter said recesses, fitted in a recess in the doorframe and provided with an integral arm D at its center that extends out through a slot in the frame that intersects said recess, and dowels D at the other side of the door frame and panel, arranged and combined as shown and described for the purposes stated.

JOHN K. UHR.

Witnesses AARON YEARoNs, REINERD RICHARDSON. 

